70 (1): 1– 8 © Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 2020. 2020 A new species of Pectenocypris (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from peat swamps in Sumatra Harald Ahnelt 1, 2, *, Arif Wibowo 3, 4, Eko Prianto 5 1 Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria — 2 First Zoological Department, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria — 3 Research Institute for Inland Fisheries and Extension, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Palembang 30252, Indonesia — 4 Inland Fishery Resources Development and Man age ment Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Jl. Gub. Bastari No.08 Jakabaring, Palembang 30252, Indonesia — 5 Re - search Centre for Fisheries, Agency for Research and Human Resource Development, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Jakarta 14430, Indonesia — * Corresponding author:
[email protected] Submitted May 7, 2019. Accepted September 27, 2019. Published online at www.senckenberg.de/vertebrate-zoology on October 1, 2019. Published in print Q1/2020. Editor in charge: Uwe Fritz Abstract A new cyprinid species, Pectenocypris rubra, is described from peat swamps from central Sumatra (Indonesia). This species is only known from peat lakes upstream of the river Serkap, a tributary of the Kampar River. Pectenocypris rubra differs from the other four species of this genus in the following combination of characters: a distinct mid-lateral stripe, an oval black spot at the base of the caudal fn, scales in lateral midline 33, 7 – 8 pored lateral line scales, 202 gill-rakers on frst gill arch, small dark grey symphyseal knob on lower jaw, and a long and narrow caudal peduncle.